Michael Ruhlman

29th annual Key West Literary Seminar

January 6 - 16, 2011

Michael Ruhlman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1963 and graduated from Duke University in 1985. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Making of a Chef, Ratio, and The Elements of Cooking, as well as four collaborations with French Laundry chef Thomas Keller. Ruhlman is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and regularly appears on television cooking shows including PBS’s “Cooking Under Fire,” “Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations,” and as a judge on the “Iron Chef” series.

In addition to his food-related work, Ruhlman is the author of the nonfiction books Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard; Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education; and Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit.

Ruhlman lives with his wife, the photographer Donna Turner Ruhlman, and their daughter and son in Cleveland.